Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Jul 22, 2017 · 3 min read

I think everyone here sees your point, there’s no proof in public right now.

But to deny that there’s a whole lot of behavior taking place that guilty people engage in when trying to cover something up is ignorant or rigidly idealistic. Not talking about this stuff until there’s 100% undeniable proof means not forming an opinion until after the trials or impeachment takes place. We could get into a philosophical argument about what it even means to know something and how can we ever know anything at all, let alone communicate that knowing to another person with a discrete point of view. How would anything ever get done?

The investigation that matters (Mueller) won’t release a damn thing until they’re ready to charge people. Sure, everything else is ratings for the media or politics for the opposition, most of which is surely weeks if not months behind the Special Prosecutor. That doesn’t mean it’s completely lacking in substance. Career journalists at major news outlets need to know that there’s something to the story or they’re risking their reputations and livelihoods for something unethical.

It’s easy to look at watergate 50 years later and say it started with a crime while this current scandal has not. But weren’t people back then skeptical of the president’s involvement? Won’t it be easy to look at this 50 years from now with much more certainty about how it started and where it went? Duh… Didn’t Watergate take 2 years to unfold?

To look at this situation and say “there’s nothing there”, “witch-hunt!!” “Obama deep-state benghazi conspiracy!” lacks curiosity and critical thought. Russians launder money through neutral off-shore banks into real estate. Trump, after no American bank would lend him money, was bailed out by a huge foreign bank under investigation for Russian money laundering and later fired the AG responsible for said investigation. I’m sure you know this story. But looking at this objectively, how can you say that this isn’t suspicious? Compile multiple suspicious stories like this one into a binder full of them and it stops looking suspicious and starts looking guilty.

I’m not saying this is a definite 100% guaranteed safe bet right now (no one can), but if I were a betting man, I’d put money on at least Flynn and Manafort going down for this, probably Kushner too. Pardons aside of course. This isn’t to say that Trump is innocent, just that they might have insulated him enough to maintain plausible deniability. He’ll be even more hamstrung than he is now though, the weakest modern president gets weaker…

Despite your obvious bias for the further-left and soreness about Bernie, it’s not like EVERYONE in Washington is some internationalist, global-elite operative seeking to dupe the American public into neo-con wars. The Democratic party needed a wake-up call, I hope it shifts to the left and focuses more on liberal domestic policy than hawkish foreign interventions. But go ahead, refuse the center, mock the center-left and deepen the divisions that will usher in Pence 2020.

But what’s really the point? This is it’s own little anti-establishment player-haters club that won’t own up when this scandal results in tangible convictions. Why do I even try? Tear the left apart….

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